. The process of making something intelligible, or saying why certain things are as they are, or the account used to do these things. The account is sometimes called the explanans, and the thing to be explained is called the explanandum. An explanation...

See also genre, non-fiction Explanation texts, one of the six kinds of non-fiction used in the 1998 National Literacy Strategy Framework for Teaching, explain a structure like that of a plant, animal or machine or a process like the working of the...

Science and scientific knowledge achieved high status in twentieth-century Western societies, yet there continues to be disagreement among scientists and those who study science (historians, philosophers, and sociologists of science) about the meaning...

Explanation The three cardinal aims of science are prediction, control, and explanation, but the greatest of these is explanation. It is also the most inscrutable: Prediction aims at truth, and control at happiness, and insofar as one has some...

An explanation is a statement which points to causes, context, and consequences of some object, process, state of affairs, etc., together with rules or laws that link these to the object. Some of these elements of the explanation may be implicit. An...

NO SINGLE government-wide policy controls the granting or withholding of security clearances. Individual departments and agencies have their own regulations governing federal workers, and an executive order signed by President Eisenhower in 1960 controls procedures for employees of contractors. The Reagan administration wished to...

My partner and I have been together for five years. Close friends hold our relationship in high esteem. We are educated and professional people, one a physician and the other a therapist. We are active in civic, charitable and church activities. Hospitality, good...

The image of a topless woman that popped up during a state legislator's computer presentation to a high school class had been downloaded by a child of the lawmaker, a state House staffer said Thursday.The image of a topless woman was projected after Rep. Matthew...

Fear of a humiliating electoral defeat has now revealed the confusion and incoherence long hidden behind the bluster of Republican war rhetoric. As the White House and its Congressional allies face an angry America, the disturbing truth can no longer be concealed. Waving the flag...